Time to obsolete arm-symbian?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 8/18/20 5:42 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> There are no serious consequences yet.  ia64 support is still in
> binutils, but as of the patch I committed, needs --enable-obsolete at
> configure time.  Assuming no one cares enough about ia64 to contribute
> fixes for the segfaults, ia64 would remain in binutils until after the
> next release, at which point the ia64 support code might be removed.
> 
> Incidentally the ld segfaults have been happening since at least
> 2.31, probably earlier.

I'm not aware of any such segfaults and I would assume they are caused by
the environment.

We are constantly building packages in Debian on ia64 with the latest versions
of gcc and binutils and I'm not aware of any such segfaults.

Here is a full build log for a native build of binutils on ia64:

> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=binutils&arch=ia64&ver=2.35-2&stamp=1597338170&raw=0

And here a full build log for a native build of a current gcc snapshot:

> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gcc-snapshot&arch=ia64&ver=1%3A20200809-1&stamp=1597095427&raw=0

If binutils and/or gcc would actually be broken on ia64, wouldn't these builds fail?

And, FWIW, the moment you kill off an architecture in binutils and/or gcc, you are
forcefully killing the Debian port without even asking downstream whether they're
okay with that.

I'm not sure what else is expected from downstream distributions to prove that the
code still works and is being used.

Thanks,
Adrian

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